intriqué
\ɛ̃.tʁi.ke\
The verdict
“intriqué” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est lié, enchevêtré.
Corpus desk
Index FR-intrique · intriqué · French
intriqué · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "I" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intriqué |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tʁi.ke\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « intriqué » en français
Rare enough to double-check
intriqué is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛ̃.tʁi.ke\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est lié, enchevêtré.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for intriqué, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is intriqué, spelled I-N-T-R-I-Q-U-É.
Definition
- 1Qui est lié, enchevêtré.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how intriqué appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'observation d'une propriété de la première particule, ou plus généralement d'un de deux systèmes physiques quantiquement intriqués, va provoquer plus vite que la lumière (on ne sait pas si l'effet est instantané) une modification d'une autre propriété similaire pour l'autre particule, …
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.